Top 100 Sayings About A Picnic
#1. Ned: I figured it was time for a picnic by the menagerie.
Jenny: And you brought me? Why not take the woman you're marrying?
Ned: She's grown up with the Duke of Ware. Lions seem less ferocious.
Courtney Milan
#2. Leonard had let them go alone with the young boy who Ali was now convinced, was a couple falafel's short of a picnic
L.R. Currell
#3. Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride.
Roman Payne
#4. Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.
Billy Graham
#5. The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.
Michael Simkins
#6. My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns - perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.
Martin Clunes
#8. Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#9. I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
Olga Kurylenko
#10. It must be dreadful to be a grown-up if a party in an everydayish schoolroom could seem just as pleasant to you as a picnic
Margaret Epp
#11. Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.
Kim Harrison
#12. People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Jack Nicklaus
#13. Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!
Minnie Pearl
#15. Love is like a picnic without ants, pleasant for a while, but sooner or later something's definitely getting squashed.
Frances Winkler
#16. If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
Bill Anderson
#17. Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not.
There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.
Neil Gaiman
#19. Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies.
Chila Woychik
#20. Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
Sara Genn
#21. My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
Janet Fitch
#22. Nice?" he said fiercely. "Nice is a lemonade stand." He withdrew and thrust deep. "Nice is a picnic on the lawn. This is not - nice. You are not a nice woman. You are fucking - sstupefying.
Ruthie Knox
#23. Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.
Conan O'Brien
#24. I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.
Ian Anderson
#25. I hope you accidentally drink leukemia at a picnic.
Jim Norton
#26. The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.
Jim Fowler
#29. The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid.
Gerald Stern
#30. I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
Bess Truman
#31. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
Roy Lichtenstein
#32. A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable sate of mind.
DeeDee Stovel
#33. He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
Lance Bass
#34. Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden
#35. Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home.
John Steinbeck
#36. A young man who plays his part in society by looking on in green spectacles, and listening with a sickly smile, may be a prodigy of intellect and a mine of virtue, but he is hardly, perhaps, the right sort of man to have at a picnic.
Wilkie Collins
#37. You couldn't plan a picnic without strangling yourself with the cloth.
Frances Hardinge
#38. I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.
Julian Grenfell
#39. I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.
Andrae Crouch
#40. Thoughts on his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden
#41. Beatrix had met Christopher Phelan on two occasions, the first at a local dance, where she had judged him to be the most arrogant man in Hampshire. The next time she had met him was at a picnic, where she had revised her opinion: he was the most arrogant man in the entire world.
Lisa Kleypas
#42. A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.
E. Michael Burke
#43. I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.
Philip Roth
#44. Even here, in the U.S., I walk my daughter's dog and I look for interesting people sitting at a picnic table and I walk over with my white hair and I ask, "Would you mind if I sat and rested here for a minute?" Nobody would refuse that.
Rita Gelman
#45. KEVIN: We know that there has been some tension. Certain events that everyone regrets, although some regret them more than others. But we also know that nothing removes tension between rivals towns quite like a picnic, a smile, and a song. Sing louder. Louder. Good.
Joseph Fink
#46. Way you took care of my crew tonight, owe you another dinner at The Eaves. I'd eat a picnic in Hades with him.
Kristen Ashley
#47. If the ink of my writing morphed into ants, would they march along with my thoughts? Would they find my work as enjoyable as a picnic? If the answer is no, I wouldn't hesitate to stomp all over my writing.
Jarod Kintz
#48. A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-'
He waved a hand. 'Faeries. I know.'
'I was going to say muggers,' said Clary. 'Though I pity the mugger who goes after you.
Cassandra Clare
#49. Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.
Richard Corliss
#50. When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream.
Renzo Rosso
#51. Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.
Elizabeth Enright
#52. Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.
Billy Corgan
#53. Dinner and a movie? Forget that. I'd rather have a picnic and a waterfall.
Amanda Grace
#54. Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.
Dave Barry
#55. One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.
Lee Trevino
#56. Negative thoughts back you into a corner," her mother said to her, smiling, one afternoon after returning from a picnic with the baby in Flushing Meadow Park. "They multiply and surround you. Don't think of what you don't have. Try to focus on the simple pleasures.
Matthew Thomas
#57. Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.
Dick Butkus
#58. Pain is such a personal thing. I wear mine like a cloak of protection, keeping people at bay. Max just casually removes it from my shoulders and drops it to the ground. If that weren't intimidating enough, he lays it out like a picnic blanket, waiting for me to take a seat and join him.
Maggi Myers
#59. Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.
Hudson Stuck
#60. COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!
John Green
#61. Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker
#62. Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.
Barbara Ascher
#63. Did you make a picnic, Jordan Matthews?' For the first time EVER, I see a blush in his cheeks. 'I might have' he mumbles and sets off walking.
Samantha Towle
#64. That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.
Edith Wharton
#65. Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.
Gary Barlow
#66. If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.
Jonathan Cainer
#68. Grandma's Advice on Picnics
Not every day is going to be a picnic,
because there are ants everywhere you go ~
and a few of them are even insects.
Beryl Dov
#69. There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
W. Somerset Maugham
#70. Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.
Jane Wagner
#71. To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it.
Tom Araya
#72. I'll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won't rain.
Richard Brautigan
#73. Bad politicians are not Born.They are created.Created by the good people who go on a picnic on voting day.
Avinash Rai
#74. War's never a picnic. Although obviously soldiers do end up eating outdoors quite a lot.
David Mitchell
#75. A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.
Josiah Royce
#76. No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Elizabeth Bowen
#77. Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance.
Brandi L. Bates
#78. It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later ... Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.
Colin S. Gray
#79. A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.
Karen Russell
#80. I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.
Deborah Kara Unger
#81. Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's
responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.
Stephen Colbert
#82. Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
Paul Hogan
#83. People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
Salman Khan
#84. He made a noise of disgruntlement. It's a bloody picnic. Sit. Eat. Shut up.
Samantha Young
#85. We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children.
Karen Armstrong
#86. It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.
Franny Billingsley
#87. As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
Elaine Stritch
#88. Even the temptation hidden in a stolen picnic basket didn't excite him as much as the thought of touching or tasting her did. Campers everywhere would rejoice.
Eve Langlais
#89. Drinking's funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we'd be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey.
Raymond Carver
#90. I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.
D. A. Pennebaker
#91. Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.
Arthur Frommer
#92. Amaranthe decided not to explain that it hadn't been a guess, that Sicarius reserved his ultra icy glare for those who threatened him, those who spoke disrespectfully about his son, and those who dared invite Amaranthe to picnic dinners in the park.
Lindsay Buroker
#93. We sat on the picnic bench, not talking, not looking at each other, but being quiet and okay. The rain was almost gone, nothing but a thin chilly fog. For now, I just wanted to sit on the picnic bench with him and not be anything but fine and uncomplicated.
Brenna Yovanoff
#94. Blood and brain tissue clung to the wet rock like the refuse of a sad picnic.
Dan Simmons
#95. First, they came for the bigots, and I said nothing, because I didn't believe I was a bigot, then ... it was really nice, it turned out it was the bigots who'd been the main issue. We just all went out and had a lovely picnic together.
Robin Ince
#96. XAVIER: Being trapped in a life that you didn't choose is no f***** picnic, no matter how good it may appear to people outside of the situation.
Michelle A. Valentine
#97. When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.
Sufe Bradshaw
#98. The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.
Kim Kardashian
#99. Jesus Christ ... Thank fuck for that," Picnic said.
"Nope, not Jesus, just a man," Horse whispered. "Although when women see my dick for the first time, they've been known to fall down on their knees and worship me.
Joanna Wylde
#100. I know ... that's why you're down here and not enjoying some picnic in a golden meadow amongst the harps and puffy clouds.
Lucifer from Angela's Coven
Bruce Jenvey
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